4 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE NXT 2.0 (Nov 23)

1. Melo Retains, WarGames Remains

First and foremost, the three-way dance that saw Carmelo Hayes putting his North American Championship on the line against two members of NXT's self-professed "old school" was a pretty delightful sugar rush. All three men threw out two-for-one specials like they were trying to get Vic Jospeh to explode at ringside, and at one point it even looked as though Pete Dunne was set to pull off the unthinkable and actually pick up a piece of gold on NXT TV. Close but no cigar, thanks to Tony D'Angelo having his money on the champ.

Melo retaining his gold thanks to this wise guy intervention then gave way to an all-out brawl kick-started by the show-long scrap between LA Knight and Grayson Waller. The violence soon spilled into the ring and just as Johnny Gargano looked set for the same fate as his son-in-law - still an odd reality - Tommaso Ciampa was on hand to make the save for his former D.I.Y. chum.

And then when you thought things couldn't get anymore confusing, with Knight somehow falling into the role of face in all this chaos, Bron Breakker decided to rock up and scream out "WARGAMES!" in the absence of William Regal, setting a New School vs. Old School dynamic into motion.

Surreal alliances aside, your writer is actually a fan of the concept of this new breed battling against the OG's inside of a structure that has now become synonymous with Triple H's former baby. But the question is, will NXT go all-in on the symbolism and have the likes of the NXT Champion and his faces of the prior generation fall to the new regime inside of the steel? As long as we get Bron Breakker throwing Johnny Wrestling into the cage whilst stuffed in a trashcan, anything else will likely just be a bonus, right?